Children and adolescents who become infected for the second time with COVID-19 are more likely to develop Long COVID, according to research recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

“Many had hoped reinfections of COVID would be milder or carry less long-term risk, but we found increased risks for a broad range of conditions, challenging the assumptions many had that children bounce back quickly,” first author Bingyu Zhang, M.S., an Applied Mathematics & Computational Science Ph.D. student in the Penn Computing, Inference and Learning (PennCIL) lab, said in a news release.

Long COVID is a chronic condition that can include a wide range of symptoms that can last weeks or months, but some people with long COVID can have persistent health issues and can lead to serious compl

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